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alen1 · Oct 28, 2008

JR: What about those Buckeyes defenders, like Malcolm Jenkins and James Laurinaitis?

Scout: I love Jenkins and I couldn’t find anyone in this business who doesn’t love him. You name the quality you want in a corner, he’s got loads of it. (Our team) almost never considers defensive backs as a top 10 pick, but we would look at him hard if we had the #1 pick. He’s got Champ Bailey potential and he isn’t that far off from him already.

Laurinaitis scares me a little. There are times where he looks like he’s thinking too much and he runs stiff. In the right defense he’s got a chance to be real good, but he’s no Tampa 2 guy. I’ll tell you one thing I love about him: James Laurinaitis thrives when challenged. You can’t coach that, you can’t teach that, and it’s that quality that separates the great from the good. Ray Lewis has it, Pat Willis has that. And Laurinaitis has it.
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JR: Tim Tebow?

Scout: You know, I heard a caller to some radio show who nailed it on Tim Tebow. You don’t want to be his first head coach or the guy who drafts him, because you’ll be long gone before he ever does anything positive for you. I think there is a lot of truth in that. The kid has a lot of things working for him, but he has horrible mechanics, footwork. The lack of patience from that offense is what has ruined Alex Smith.

If that first read isn’t there, they’re just not taught how to handle that. They’re taught to take off or to just wing it. That works at college but it gets coaches fired in the NFL. ...the expectation level for him is going to be so much higher than he can ever come close to for his first few years. He isn’t as good a passer as Vince Young and look at how awful he’s been. The Titans were winning in spite of him and that is not going to repeat itself with this kid.JR: Tim Tebow?

Scout: You know, I heard a caller to some radio show who nailed it on Tim Tebow. You don’t want to be his first head coach or the guy who drafts him, because you’ll be long gone before he ever does anything positive for you. I think there is a lot of truth in that. The kid has a lot of things working for him, but he has horrible mechanics, footwork. The lack of patience from that offense is what has ruined Alex Smith.

If that first read isn’t there, they’re just not taught how to handle that. They’re taught to take off or to just wing it. That works at college but it gets coaches fired in the NFL. ...the expectation level for him is going to be so much higher than he can ever come close to for his first few years. He isn’t as good a passer as Vince Young and look at how awful he’s been. The Titans were winning in spite of him and that is not going to repeat itself with this kid.
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JR: No Beanie Wells there?

Scout: I haven’t made up my mind on Beanie just yet. There are times when I see a kid every bit as good as Adrian Peterson and then he fades. Beanie runs streaky. He isn’t the most mature kid either. He kind of showed up his coaches with the way he handled his toe and I don’t like that.
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There are more questions but those stood out to me. Thoughts?

ckparrothead · Oct 28, 2008

Good year for safeties, linebackers and pass rushers?

Good year to be the Miami Dolphins! LOL.

We could use a free safety like whoa, we need ILBs, and we need another outside pass rusher.

Regan21286 · Oct 28, 2008

Yea, we don't need a WR or a CB at all. I mean we have Wilford and Goodman.

Motion · Oct 28, 2008

JR: Tim Tebow?

Scout: You know, I heard a caller to some radio show who nailed it on Tim Tebow. You don’t want to be his first head coach or the guy who drafts him, because you’ll be long gone before he ever does anything positive for you. I think there is a lot of truth in that. The kid has a lot of things working for him, but he has horrible mechanics, footwork. The lack of patience from that offense is what has ruined Alex Smith.

If that first read isn’t there, they’re just not taught how to handle that. They’re taught to take off or to just wing it. That works at college but it gets coaches fired in the NFL. ...the expectation level for him is going to be so much higher than he can ever come close to for his first few years. He isn’t as good a passer as Vince Young and look at how awful he’s been. The Titans were winning in spite of him and that is not going to repeat itself with this kid.
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Tebow has actually really improved on progressing through his reads and hitting the checkdowns, so thats not entirely true about it being a one read offense. I definitely agree with the expectations being higher than he might be able to overcome comment. The Vince Young comment is a joke really.

JMO.

ckparrothead · Oct 28, 2008

Regan21286 said:

Yea, we don't need a WR or a CB at all. I mean we have Wilford and Goodman.
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Yes because CLEARLY we only have 3 picks in the draft.

BuckeyeKing · Oct 28, 2008

I agree with him about JL. I also Agree with him about Beanie he is streaky runner but thats partly due to no holes open up. When holes are open for him he can take it the distance. I also disagree about him not being Mature. Beanie is very mature compared to other athletes.

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